M4700 Owners Thread

It's explained directly in the second post in the first thread that you linked. The GPU card slot uses PCI Express lanes offered directly by the CPU, not the ones offered by the chipset. Ivy Bridge CPUs support PCIe3. My M6700 has Quadro M5000M operating at PCIe3.

 

I edited my post and pointed out that the first link does mention 3.0, but the dell specs don't

"PCI 2.3, PCI Express 1.0 and 2.0, SATA 1.0A ,2.0 and 3.0, USB 2.0 and 3.0"

Why are you mentioning an m6700?

 

I think you're mentioning m6700 because it's got a similar chipset

Well this is what my bus shows

https://imgur.com/a/WAGBgp5

Not sure if it's defaulting to what the card is or not.

 

Okay, cpu-z shows pci e 3 under the cpu

https://imgur.com/a/sdB0iNM

yet the page for qm77 says pci express 2.0

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64333/mobile-intel-qm77-express-chipset.html

very confusing

 

QM77 doesn't matter. Again, the GPU is attached directly to the CPU PCIe lanes, bypassing the chipset. The only thing that matters is what the CPU supports.
I mentioned M6700 because M4700 and M6700 are basically identical internally/architecturally. They use the same components and BIOS.

 

the 7250 sells a m2200

Is this compatible?

The cards looks different

https://imgur.com/a/NxS9eZ2

 

The NVIDIA identification on the GPU Die points to M2000 instead M2200, where the die is also not square angled. So yes the card is compatible but no it's not the most powerful option for the M4700.

 

The M2200 is the same card as the GTX965M for your information

 

Bought an m2000m

Shows up as

microsoft display adapter

Gpuz detects its dell and has 640 shader cores with 1870m transistors. Gpu: gm107

Is there a gpu bios I can flash for an m4700?

I found this

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/183206/183206

gpuz picture: https://imgur.com/a/fEX6rbd

I attempted to flash the bios with the one I found and it took, rebooted. Still says same.

I read here
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/bios-version-unknown.132979/
"when the vga bios is integrated with the system bios, gpuz can not read the vga bios (because there is none), no bios -> no bios version"

 

nevermind. After flashing, I got it to work (I manually selected the driver from a dell download)

https://imgur.com/a/6TsfiHS

thanks guys. Upgraded my gpu for $120